When the traveller tires of historic cities, shimmering coastlines, fashion meccas, and artistic goldmines, there's always exploration of the see-what-happens variety. Meanderings through hilltop villages with cobbledstoned streets, stone houses, fine produce, local wines and amiable locals will never disappoint. It's La Dolce Vita after all.
Hit Scotland's can't-miss sights, bites, and history in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of Scotland!
Survey of the present Italian Foreign Minister's native land.
The story of Italy through her people, culture and the great events that shaped the country The birthplace of the Renaissance and the place where the Baroque was born, Italy has always been a hotbed of culture.
The Monocle team celebrates the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan.
In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book has done since Luigi Barzini's classic, The Italians.
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This new history tells the fascinating story of a country always marked by scandal but with the constant ability to re-invent itself.
Don’t miss Frances Mayes in PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! “Reading this book is a vacation in itself.”—The New York Times Book Review (Best Travel Books of the Summer) The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San ...
In this revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, the author presents an account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic ...
Using original documents, the Allied Occupation of southern Italy, particularly Sicily and Naples, is illustrated by examining crime and unrest by Allied soldiers, deserters, rogue troops and Italian civilians from drunkenness, theft, rape, ...